Does anybody know of a place that sells black lug nuts w/ a locking nut for the JK? When I get mine I plan on powdercoating my wheels gunmetal/black but would like to have a lock nut or the tuner style lugs that require a special socket to take them off.

Thanks

 

I had a set of normal locking lug nuts and I lost the key. So i went to the dealership to see if I could get another. They don't make extra keys for those. They told me that the locking lugs don't make a difference on stopping people from getting your wheels. They have even had them stolen right off the lot. I was just thinking that you should know that. The dealer told me how to get them off, and it's real easy. Just a little FYI.

 

Gorilla makes good black lugs and locks.

 

rockratz.com has them and you can also get black center caps if you need them

 

Nice. Thanks!

 

If they told they way I think they told you...it sounds a hell of a lot easier than it is. Also, it can get really LOUD! If you have the most basic of alarms with any type of shock sensor, it will get even LOUDER!

 

The LugShack.com has black spline drive nuts.....I have them on my Argent AEV wheels & they look great.

 

"They told me that the locking lugs don't make a difference on stopping people from getting your wheels."

They are full of it. On some applications where the lugnut surface is exposed and you are using those old school McGuard style locking lugnuts with the silly sort of sprial design on the end you could pound a impact socket onto them and remove them. The spline style that everyone is talking about is impervious to this method as they are cylindrical in shape.

 

Where can someone get these cylindrical locking lugs? I've lost my key before on my camaro's lugs and just hammered on a socket and took it right off. Course I couldn't get the thing out of the socket, but it worked. I personally am a fan of making it too much of a pain in the ass to get them off, by getting 5 locking lugs per wheel, not just 1 as comes in most sets you'd get at Pep Boys, etc.

 

It's not about being faster than the bear, it's about being faster than the other people running from the bear.

What that means is this: any locknut, alarm, security box etc is defeatable- but it makes your car a harder target than the one parked next to it.

I don't know where you live, but in densly populated metropolitan areas, thieves have very little time to work a hit. If your car is going to give them trouble, they'll move on and hit the one next to it.

Of course, if they're willing to camp out and put in a solid fifteen minutes, locknuts won't save your wheels. But the chances of that happening are slim. I'd bet the dealership job was done on a Jeep parked in an unlit behind-the-building storage lot... a Jeep parked at a curb under streetlights is a different scenario...